From 813ac93fc169254119cd8682b2ca5f8500a8b087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Pfaff <6773539+FlorianPfaff@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:02:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Reject scalar hypersphere uniform inputs cleanly

---
 .../abstract_hypersphere_subset_uniform_distribution.py         | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pyrecest/distributions/hypersphere_subset/abstract_hypersphere_subset_uniform_distribution.py b/src/pyrecest/distributions/hypersphere_subset/abstract_hypersphere_subset_uniform_distribution.py
index ec495a716..07467a9e2 100644
--- a/src/pyrecest/distributions/hypersphere_subset/abstract_hypersphere_subset_uniform_distribution.py
+++ b/src/pyrecest/distributions/hypersphere_subset/abstract_hypersphere_subset_uniform_distribution.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def pdf(self, xs):
             : Probability density at the given data points.
         """
         xs = array(xs)
-        if xs.shape[-1] != self.input_dim:
+        if xs.ndim == 0 or xs.shape[-1] != self.input_dim:
             raise ValueError("Invalid shape of input data points.")
         manifold_size = self.get_manifold_size()
         if manifold_size == 0:

From 05e9290c850523f0bcb93ddca051e638e5537da7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Pfaff <6773539+FlorianPfaff@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:03:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add scalar hypersphere uniform pdf regression

---
 .../test_hypersphere_uniform_scalar_pdf.py      | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/distributions/test_hypersphere_uniform_scalar_pdf.py

diff --git a/tests/distributions/test_hypersphere_uniform_scalar_pdf.py b/tests/distributions/test_hypersphere_uniform_scalar_pdf.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c7ae1801
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/distributions/test_hypersphere_uniform_scalar_pdf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+"""Regression tests for hyperspherical uniform input validation."""
+
+import unittest
+
+from pyrecest.distributions import HypersphericalUniformDistribution
+
+
+class HypersphericalUniformScalarPdfTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_pdf_rejects_scalar_input_with_value_error(self):
+        dist = HypersphericalUniformDistribution(2)
+
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "Invalid shape"):
+            dist.pdf(1.0)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()